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ID Short Description Date City Parish Current County Old county Nation
18

Mother Nokes allegedly bewitches the limbs of two servants in the service of Thomas Spycer, Anonymous 58 and Anonymous 366. Anonymous 58 had snatched a pair of gloves from Mother Nokes' daughter, to which Nokes said "I will bounce him well enough," causing his limbs to give out. Anonymous 366 was afflicted when Anonymous 58 sent him to return the gloves on his behalf . Mother Nokes afflicted the boy's limbs are so badly afflicted that Thomas Spycer had to have him brought home in a wheelbarrow, and he was unable to move from his bed for eight days.(15-16)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A Detection of Damnable Driftes Practised by Three Witches Arranged at Chelmifforde in Essex. London: 1579, 15-16

1579   Lambert, Lambert End, Lambourne  Essex  Essex  England 
19

Mother Nokes allegedly catches her husband, Mr. Nokes, having an affair with the wife (Anonymous 365) of a Lamberd Ende tailor. In revenge, Mother Nokes is said to have told the the tailor's wife that she will not keep her nursing child. Shortly thereafter, the child dies.(16)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A Detection of Damnable Driftes Practised by Three Witches Arranged at Chelmifforde in Essex. London: 1579, 16

1579   Lambert, Lambert End, Lambourne  Essex  Essex  England 
2141

Mother Nokes allegedly became offended when a servant of Thomas Spycer's (Anonymous 367) refused to answer a question she put to him; shortly thereafter one of the horses he was plowing with fell down with a swollen head and died. Thinking that Anonymous 367 had beaten the horse about its head, Spycer demanded to know what had happened, to which Anonymous 367 recounted the story. Spycer went to Nokes and threatened to have her answer for the death of the horse.(16-17)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A Detection of Damnable Driftes Practised by Three Witches Arranged at Chelmifforde in Essex. London: 1579, 16-17

1579   Lambert, Lambert End, Lambourne  Essex  Essex  England 
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Mother Nokes, when asked to reconcile with Mr. Nokes and the tailor's wife (Anonymous 365), allegedly answered angrily that she "cared for none of them all, as longe as Tom helde on her side." Tom is said to be her fiend.(16)

Appears in:
Anonymous. A Detection of Damnable Driftes Practised by Three Witches Arranged at Chelmifforde in Essex. London: 1579, 16

1579   Lambert, Lambert End, Lambourne  Essex  Essex  England